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The idea of earthly immortality has a tradition in literature dating to the Gilgamesh epic. But what would it mean to attain such immortality? Answers are suggested in novels and plays that explore the theme using varieties of Borges's "rational imagination," often in connection with projections of biology or cybernetics. In this groundbreaking study, Karl S. Guthke examines key works in this vein, throwing into relief fascinating instances of human self-awareness across the last 300 years. Authors discussed in detail include J. M. Barrie, Calvino, Shaw, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Swift, Aldous Huxley, Walter Besant, Arthur C. Clarke, Wilde, Borges, William Godwin and other English Romantics, Capek, Machado de Assis, de Beauvoir, Martin Amis, Dino Buzzati, Houellebecq, Iris Barry, Saramago, Rushdie, Gabi Gleichmann, and Pascal Mercier. Guthke finds that the fictional triumph over death is only rarely viewed positively, and mostly as a "curse"-for a variety of reasons. Almost always, however, literary experiments with immortality suggest an alternative: the chance to take our limited lifetime into our own hands, shaping it meaningfully and thereby experiencing "a new way of being in the world" (Mercier). The fictional immortals reject this challenge, thus depriving themselves of what makes humans human and life worth living. And what that might be is also at least hinted at in the works Guthke analyzes. As a result, an aspect of cultural history comes into view that is revealing and stimulating at a time that is, as Der Spiegel put it in 2014, "obsessed by the invention of immortality." Karl S. Guthke is the Kuno Francke Professor of Germanic Art and Culture, Emeritus, of Harvard University.

Immortality in literature. --- analysis. --- death. --- fiction. --- genre. --- history. --- humanities. --- humanity. --- immortality. --- literary study. --- literature. --- motif. --- research. --- theme.

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Qu'est-ce qu'un baiser ? Un jeu musculaire de lèvres, précis et entraîné ou l'adorable caresse, la « sublime ivresse d'une bouche sucrine » chantée par Verlaine ? Les deux, probablement, tellement le corps est ce prosaïsme enchanté permanent. Alain Montandon nous propose une rêverie au fil des plus belles scènes de baiser de la littérature. L'occasion, de Judas à Bérénice, de saisir le corps dans son abandon ou sa scélératesse.

Kissing --- Literature --- Baisers --- Littérature --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Lips --- Kissing in literature --- Social aspects --- Littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Literary study --- Kiss --- Themes, motives. --- Kissing. --- Kissing in literature. --- Social aspects. --- Lips - Social aspects

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The books in The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series chronicle the heretofore neglected stories of women between 1400 and 1700 with the aim of reviving scholarly interest in their thought as expressed in a full range of genres: treatises, orations, and history; lyric, epic, and dramatic poetry; novels and novellas; letters, biography, and autobiography; philosophy and science. Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe complements these rich volumes by identifying themes useful in literature, history, religion, women's studies, and introductory humanities courses. The volume's introduction, essays, and suggested course materials are intended as guides for teachers--but will serve the needs of students and scholars as well.

Women and religion --- Women --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- History. --- Religious life. --- religion, religious, women, gender studies, feminine, early modernism, europe, european, treatises, oration, history, historical context, lyrics, music, epics, literature, literary study, dramatic poetry, novels, novellas, fiction, letters, biography, autobiography, philosophy, science, scientific writing, humanities, italian, italy, renaissance, reformation, inquisition, post-reformation, holiness, doctrine, germany, german, france, french.

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This book critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book. It reappraises the range of effects it is possible to create through the use of graphic devices and explores why literary criticism has dismissed such features as either unreadable experimental gimmicks or, more recently, as examples of the worst kind of postmodern decadence. Through the examination of problematical texts which utilise the graphic surface in innovative and unusual ways, including Samuel Beckett's Watt, B. S. Johnson's Albert Angelo, Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru and Alasdair Gray's Lanark, this book demonstrates that an awareness of the graphic surface can make significant contributions to interpretation.

Experimental fiction, English --- Graphic design (Typography) --- Typographic design --- Design --- Printing --- Layout (Printing) --- History and criticism. --- Experimental fiction. --- Book design. --- Experimental fiction --- Design, Book --- Books --- Avant-garde fiction --- Fiction --- Literature, Experimental --- Format --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- graphic textual phenomena. --- literary criticism. --- literary study. --- manuscript transformation. --- mimesis. --- novel. --- prose fiction. --- reading. --- semantic content. --- typographic devices.

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Both realist, post-postmodernist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and the legacy of analog photography in its recent digital incarnation depend on an aesthetics of trust and a sense of contingent referentiality. Julia Breitbach's innovative study demonstrates how current photographic discourse may be used as an illuminating critical idiom for the analysis of recent forms of literary realism, thus proposing a photographic hermeneutics for the study of literature. Along with a thorough critical investigation of both fields, Breitbach offers a pioneering theoretical exploration of analog and digital photography based on recent "thing theory," which she then applies to in-depth analyses of realist aesthetics in selected post-millennial novels by Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Ali Smith, yielding fresh perspectives on the remediation between photography and literature in the twenty-first century. An original contribution to the study of contemporary Anglophone literatures with an interdisciplinary appeal, this study will be of interest especially to scholars and students in Anglophone literary studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and media studies. Julia Breitbach is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Constance, Germany.

Fiction --- Literature and photography. --- Realism in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Photography and literature --- Photography --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- Analog Fictions. --- Digital Age. --- Literary Realism. --- Photographic Discourses. --- analog photography. --- contemporary German and Austrian identities. --- contemporary literary analysis. --- current photographic discourse. --- gender and sexuality. --- globalization. --- green thought. --- literary study. --- media studies. --- novels. --- post-postmodernist aesthetics. --- postmemory of the Holocaust.